This may help, but only if you are using a 3dfx card
http://www.netroedge.com/~phil/3dfx-howto.html
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
>
> Nope, not really. The trouble is that the video hardware isn't accessed
> through a
> device. It's accessed using privileged system calls which allow direct
> comm
Nope, not really. The trouble is that the video hardware isn't accessed through
a
device. It's accessed using privileged system calls which allow direct
communication
to i/o ports. The system call which enables this can only be run as root.
There's a lot of discussion about this topic in fact. T
I just installed Quake and Quake2 on my Linux machine. They run fine in X
of course, and I can get the SVGALIB (console) versions to run ok too as
long as I run them as root or suid root.
However, I'm wondering if there's some kinda of special device file that I
could just allow myself write perm
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